Cycle 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-NazificationDrive
Worked through in 9 videos · 11 passages.
Summary
Dominique Pagani approaches drive through Freud. He holds that every drive tends to restore an earlier state and fulfils itself by disappearing in satisfaction, as hunger moves toward satiety1. He distinguishes it from human desire, which is infinite. Behind every drive he places the death drive, which he understands as a return to inert matter and which Freud identifies with the principle of repetition. He grounds it in an axiom: the inert precedes the living, which makes it a transbiological drive2. In his view, this last topography contradicts the opposition between the pleasure principle and the reality principle and ruins the Freudian theory founded on the pleasure principle3. He links it to the Romantic temptation and to Wagner's character Kundry, who longs only to sleep and die. In recent sessions, he takes up the saying that "the death drives advance in silence" to refer to the danger of war that the media keep quiet about4.
- 1Discussion with Aliocha Allard (29 March 2017)26 Feb 2019 · 10:57
- 2Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?3 Sept 2023 · 42:04
- 3#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 14:34
- 4The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025 · 19:45
Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification
Cycle 12 · 4 Jun 2024The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present- 32:36Kundry, who longs only to sleep and die, recalls the death drive, the extinguishing of all drives.
Cycle 11 · 3 Sept 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?- 42:04Axiom: the inert precedes the living; every desire aims at an earlier state; hence the death drive, trans-biological, and the drive to repetition.
Cycle 11 · 7 Aug 2023Niger special: should we “blacken the corpses”?- 43:53"Death drives advance in silence": Freud's formula designates the danger that advances without being expressed, like war under the silence of the media.
Series · 3 Dec 2020#3 What is called modern music?- 1:15:25Romantic temptation leads to Freud's death drive, a return to primitive inertia.
Cycle 6 · 23 Oct 2019#6.1 The logic of the subject- 1:29:33The death drive takes on, in Freud, an ever-growing place that ruins the theory founded on the pleasure principle.
Talks · 26 Feb 2019La Fausse Note, a film by Aliocha- 10:57According to Freud, every drive, in order to be satisfied, tends to return to a prior state, as hunger tends toward satiety.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 14:34The death drive, Freud's last topography, contradicts the opposition between the pleasure principle and the reality principle.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus